July

One Woman Play - Yours for Humanity, Abby - Discover actress Lynne McKenney Lydick in this one-woman play based on the letters and speeches of abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster.Born into an ordinary Massachusetts farm family, Foster dedicated her life to social justice.At a time when society demanded that women be silent and submissive, she was neither.Abby Kelley Foster braved harassment and ridicule to live out her principles.Performance under a tent on the Museum grouns.

September

Lecture - Sister Societies - Historian and author Beth Salerno will share her extensive research on female anti-slavery societies of the 1830s to 1850s, showing that women were the backbone of the movement. She discovered more than 200 such groups in the Northeast, including five in Vermont. Books will be available for sale and signing.